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It's officially Roald Dahl day here in the UK and I'm right on the ball with week two of my Roald Dahl month. Every week this month Im picking one of my favourite Roald Dahl stories to get creative with. Last week it was Charlie and the chocolate factory. This week Ive picked one of my absolute favourites, I mean all these choices are great stories but this one is a great adventure with all of that Great British quirkiness that I love from Dahl's stories. Steven Spielberg has recently released his cinematic vision of this story and it is a brilliant film. My daughter loved the film and I really did too. Heres the trailer.

So I have three great ideas for you this week. We'll start off with these awesome dream catchers, without the BFG's giant ears to hear peoples dreams us normal beans will need a little extra help.

The BFG Paper Plate Dream Catchers

The beautiful thing about paper plate dream catchers is that there are unlimited possibilities to decorate them, so each one is unique and colorful.

Materials

Paper plates (cheaper the better)

string

Crayons

Sequins

Glitter

Feathers

Pony Beads

Glue

Scissors

Hole Punch

Directions

The first step is to have a parent cut out the center of the paper plate leaving just the outer ring. Using the hole punch, punch holes along the inner edge of the ring. We also placed two holes at the top of the ring (for hanging) and three holes at the bottom (to hang feathers).

After that let kids use their imaginations decorate one or both sides of the paper ring with crayons, sequins, glitter and anything else that makes them happy.

Next cut three lengths of string and tie a feather to one end. Once the feather was secure, we strung beads onto the string and feather.

Next I cut a length of string to weave across the middle of the plate. (This was really an estimate, I loosely ran the string across the holes a few times to get an idea of how much string to cut.)

After tying off the string on one hole, we weaved the string through the holes across the center of the ring to create a web. While weaving, we also added a few beads at random to the string.

Then it was time to attach the feathers and a loop of yarn for hanging.

BFG Ears

You Will Need

How to Make

2. Fold the A4 sheet of felt in half. This is to allow a gap in the centre to thread the headband through and makes the ears a more sturdy double thickness. Place the ear template on the fold and as close to the bottom of the felt as possible. This is to allow enough room to cut out the second ear.

3. Use a lead pencil to draw around the outside of the template straight on to the felt. Repeat for the second ear. Cut out both ears ensuring you leave the centre fold as this will form a tube to slide in the headband.

4. Use the off-cuts of felt to create the narrow inner ear parts. Cut these out.

5. Arrange the inner ear parts onto the big ears. When you are happy with their position, glue in place with fabric glue. Leave to dry for five minutes.

6. Place each ear around the headband. The ears need to be positioned quite low down onto the headband to ensure they are in the correct place when worn. When you are happy with the position, use PVA glue on the headband and a generous amount of fabric glue on the inside of the felt ears to glue it all together. Leave to dry.

This week I have handpicked some great print outs that you can use. I have two great games for you later on but for now check out these cool birthday party invitations. They have been added to our awesome Party Invitation library.

This week I have some awesome Zootopia games you can do at home or in a hall. All of these are super simple and great fun. I have already covered a great Ring Toss game/craft and I have some great FREE printables for you too, you can use the buttons below to find these posts. Lets go.

I’m loving this project Disney is working on to take all of their animated classics and turn them into live action films. I think it started with Cinderella which was ok, Beauty and the Beast was brilliant, Dumbo was umm ok and when I first saw the initial teaser for the new live action Aladdin

There are very well known different methods of showing the Star Wars Universe stories to your kids, you could just go for the Theatrical Release Date method. This is my second favourite, maybe because it’s the order in which I saw the films. Im too young to have seen the original trilogy at the cinema but I watched them in order on VHS.

t's officially Roald Dahl day here in the UK and I'm right on the ball with week two of my Roald Dahl month. Every week this month Im picking one of my favourite Roald Dahl stories to get creative with.

Hello and welcome to our final week of Finding Nemo/Dory fun. This week I am going to show you some really simply and cool ideas for decorations. Now these could be used for a themed birthday party or a really cool movie marathon of both the films. They also work for any Under the Sea or Little Mermaid party too.

We’re back with another instalment of Marvel fun. This time we are going to explore space with Guardians of the Galaxy and Captain Marvel which is pretty difficult to do as no-one has yet seen the new Captain Marvel film, it’s coming out on March 8 this year so in a couple of weeks we will know what this awesome trailer is all about.

Hello and welcome to a brand new week at Wonder Kids, This week I have some amazing fun food ideas that are great as movie snacks or if you have a little fussy eater I think making the food fun can really help. Some of these would also work as party food too. We have dozens of great recipe ideas at Wonder Kids, you can find them all in our great Kids Kitchen section.